>>>>> "Aditya" == Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello Aditya! Aditya> Metapost is for drawing all kinds of graphics. It give you a Aditya> very fine control on where to place objects, and is very well Aditya> integrated with ConTeXt (your labels will be the same font as Aditya> the rest of the document). With the new mplib, using metapost Aditya> in ConTeXt is very fast (for me I do not notice any difference; Aditya> with mkii it used to take aboud 3-4 sec). This is very nice feature... Aditya> Graphviz is good for automatic positioning of nodes. If you have Aditya> a large number of nodes, it can figure out the best way to place Aditya> them. There are different versions, dot (for directed graphs), Aditya> circo (for circular graphs), neato (for undirected graphs), fps Aditya> (uses a different model for undirected graphs). For most of the Aditya> cases, the output is average: the node placement is very good, Aditya> but then it is difficult to get tex to process the labels, it is Aditya> limited in terms of color effects that you can get. I find it Aditya> very hard to modify the output. I will probably not deal with many modes, but having support for all kinds of graphics is preferred. Aditya> Graphiz does give metapost output, but I found it to be a bit Aditya> akward to use. The good part about graphiz is that is very easy Aditya> to learn, and for most cases the output is acceptable. But, as you wrote above, it is not a 'general' graphic package? Aditya> There is dot2tex, which a python script that converts from dot Aditya> (graphviz) to tikz. I have not tried it, but from the examples Aditya> it appears to remove all the drawbacks of integrated graphviz Aditya> with tex. It is tailored towards integration with latex, but it Aditya> should not be too hard to configure it for context. Thanks a lot for your input. It seems that metapost is not the most easy way, but considering that luatex & context are future, it looks worth to sit & have metafun ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------
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